England of the 1930s, a small town mesmerized by the rumors and fables spun by children, this is a world that is full of the occult, strange oozing with an uncomforting and chilling dark atmosphere.
I was worried about Katie getting too involved with Steve so I eventually told her about his drug addiction—you’ve got to be cruel to be kind sometimes.
I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure
Children aren't born knowing how to say " I'm sorry" ; rather, they learn over time that such statements appease parents and friends and their own consciences.
Do not, I implore you, chieftains, -do not, I implore you, renew the foul barbarities your insatiate avarice has inflicted on this wretched, unoffending race.
In most cases, recurring dreams are of a vaguely unpleasant kind and are almost certainly caused because the individual has a problem of a significant kind which he is unable to resolve in his waking life.
On our right, the German wife began berating her husband. All of us were interrupted by an unpleasant blast of cold air. Through the front door came an old French flower woman.